Looking down Pommenicher Straße from Gaststätte Rosarius, the monstrous machine about to devour the town bites at the ground.
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The coal extractor swings back and forth, ripping coal from the ground and throwing it on a conveyor belt to be burned a few miles away.
A switch for the yard engines, now on the edge of the property where nobody will find it.
One thing that made the Eagle Mine unique is the underground mill, left of this picture. As the rocks moved down the mill, they would be turned into finer and finer powder.
Looking through the trestle toward the ghost town.
The old gate sign, leaned against one of the terminal elevators.
An abandoned news stand between the concourse and ticket booths. This is one of my favorite pictures from the 2000s.
Between two brick buildings is a metal one with many windows set into it. Having been in many mills of similar design, I conjecture that this was the milling building, where machines ground the corn before it was boiled.
A high-ceilinged room where kegs would be delivered for cleaning, before they were refilled with fresh booze.
Cages and hooks to dry wet miner clothes.